A Better Day (feat. Erica Dee)

from Don't Look Down by Mr. Lif

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The Boston prophet’s first work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself.

Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth.

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lyrics

Chorus by Erica Dee

A better day
Better life
See it
Believe it
Let it come alive
Alive

A better day
Better life
See it
Believe it
It's in your eyes
It's in your eyes

Verse One (Mr. Lif)

I might sit and analyze the skies
To revitalize
Some old concepts I idolized
I'm glad that I'm alive
To find environments where I could thrive
Strive
Then shift my brain right into hyper drive
And what I notice is real
It won't fail
Nature truly holds the truth
To all life's details
I rebuke the cosmetic
Prosthetic
Rather get it from the ayurvedic medic
And stay indebted to the energetic force
That has plotted a course
For me to rep and share my light
whenever people feel lost
These are hard times
But through adversity my heart climbs
Finding strengths at my mind's outer lengths
When it all seems hopeless
Ability to cope is
too elusive
Soul searching inconclusive
Take a deep breath
Feel the the heart inside your chest
Knowledge works in some mysterious ways
This is a test

Chorus

A better day
Better life
See it
Believe it
Let it come alive
Alive

A better day
A better life
See it
Believe it
It's in your eyes
It's in your eyes

Verse Two (Mr. Lif)

I have dreams
Magnified by sun beams
Some screams lurkin' in my mind indelibly
Instinctively
We're united through telepathy
Without a word
I can observe the things you're telling me
Therapy is peace of mind
A certain type of light will leave you blind
The other type is by your heart's design
Choose which one and be undone
If moderation isn't your function
You just shunned
The crucial need for balance
To dodge the deadly talons
Of vultures in the sky
Bankers on the ground
They'll dissolve your town
Just to make a buck
You're counting on their morals?
Then you're shit outta luck
I build a viaduct to bridge a common tale
Then inhale
The glory of life without fail
Please scale these walls with me
And dissolve memory
Of this vile prison
That we've called living

Chorus

Better day
Better life
See it
Believe it
It's in your eyes
Your eyes

A better day
better life
See it
Believe it
Let it come alive
Alive

A better day
Better life
See it
Believe it
It's in your eyes
Your eyes

A better day
Better life
See it
Believe it
It's in your eyes
Your eyes

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from Don't Look Down, released April 15, 2016
A Better Day feat Erica Dee - produced by SlopFunkDust for SlopFunkDust (BMI) / written by J. Haynes for Virtua Stab Publishing (SESAC) & Erica Dee Landsberg / Mixed & Mastered By: Mike Cip @ Split2nd Entertainment

photo by Michael Tolle

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